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Period: 1940s
At the Ski Resort, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Carlton Atherton
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 21.25" x 16.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1945
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Great Bird - American Surrealism - Mid-Century - Yale
Located in Miami, FL
Frederick Haucke creates his own brand of surrealism in the 1941 stunner that was with the famous Perls gallery.
The painting is signed lower right
Signed and dated verso
Verso with Perls Gallery, New York label.
work is in original framed
Provenance: Millicent Rogers...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Guns, rifle and Shells Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
An intriguing and complex composition composed of guns, rifles, ammo and a bullseye. Work is housed in a rustic Heydenryk frame.
Category
Abstract 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Champion Fertilizer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00"
Fertilizer advertisement, image of a man, girl, boy and dog.
This illustration was...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Springtown Grocer"
By John Foster
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
R. John Foster (1908 - 1989)
R. John Foster lived all of his life in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He studied at the...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
HUGO SCHEIBER 1873-1950
1873 - Budapest - 1950 (Hungarian)
Title: Self Portrait
Technique: Original Signed Pastel Drawing on Paper
Size: 37.7 x 30 cm. / 14.8 x 11.8 in.
Additiona...
Category
Futurist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Study for 'Happy Landing' Amoco Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby.
Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
'Racehorses Turning For Home' circa 1940s Oil on Canvas
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic o/c 'pastel colours' horse-racing c1930s scene
depicting four jockeys turning for home!
Art Sz: 11 1/4"H x 8 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 12"W
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Oil
Rhythm in Blues
Located in London, GB
signed ‘Gropper’ (lower right); with the artist's studio stamp (on the verso)
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Modern Industry"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed lower right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman from Behind
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This painting was reproduced on page 151 of John La Gatta-An Artist's Life by Jill Bossert, Madison ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Burning Castle
By Stefan Hirsch
Located in Miami, FL
Exhibited: The North Carolina Museum of Art , October, 1967
Exhibited: November 5th to December 4, 1977
Titled: Study for Gomorrah, 1944
His work is in the collections of: Philli...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Look at It! Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center: Al Moore
The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 10, 1942
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Riveting Read
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Cashmere Bouquet Soap Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 17.75"
Signature: Unsigned
A sweet WWII-era illustration for a Cashmere Bouquet Soap camp...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"The children danced around her, chanting"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "Illegitimate" by Nelia Gardner White for the Ladies' Home Journal, published June 1944, page 25.
The full caption reads: "The children danced around her, cha...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Christmas Manger Set - A Product Illustration
By George Hinke
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
This piece was produced as the cover art for the box containing a die-cut color lithograph manger set...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Holiday Tavern Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist
Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ.
(Reverse also signed with Philadelphia address of artist)
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"From the Studio, Manhattan"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
At Home Wedding, Original cover for Star Weekly magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for Star Weekly magazine, published October 7, 1944.
A young girl gazes up at a woman wearing what is likely a Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform as they ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunters
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.50" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Born in San Francisco, Amos Sewell was a ranking California tennis player in his 20s wh...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$5,000
Mayhem with a Mop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
“I therefore reversed the mop, placed the soft end of it gently against the colonel’s face, and pushed him politely backward” Magazine story illustratio...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Master of the House
By William M. Reusswig
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Chef in the kitchen cooking.
William Reusswig was a fine illustrator, and married to an equally fine one, Martha Sawyers. They traveled the world together and, in collaboration, wrote and illustrated two books about the Far East, published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1961 and 1964. They worked out of a New York apartment with two studios, where each could pursue their individual assignments.
William was born in Somerville, New Jersey; he studied at Amherst College and the Art Students League in New York. He was only twenty-three when he made his first illustrations for Collier’s, and then illustrated for most national fiction magazines, including Cosmopolitan, True, Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, The Country Gentleman...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Women in an Interior
Located in London, GB
ALFRED ABERDAM 1894-1963
Lviv 1894-1963 Paris (Polish/French)
Title: Women in an Interior, 1948
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on panel
size: 32.5 x 26.5 cm / 12.8 x 10.4...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watching Over Them, Brown & Bigelow Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Watching Over Them, Brown & Bigelow illustration
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Three Amoco Studies
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Amoco Oil Advertisements
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Theresa Thompson"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Recruits, Original Christmas cover for Judge magazine, WWI Soldier Santa
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Christmas cover for Judge magazine, published December 22, 1917.
Santa is dressed as a World War I soldier with a sack of toys holding a drum and toy soldiers.
Orson Byro...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Splendid Outcast
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Paperboard
The present work was published as the main illustration for a short story by Beryl Markham published in The Saturday Even...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
Eavesdropping
By Peter Driben
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Dimensions: 22.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Shotgun Hunting Abstract with Shooting Bullseye
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine.
Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Secret Project
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine Story Illustration
Signed lower left
Amos Sewell had a special empathy for children and also particularly enjoyed depicting homespun, rural subjects. These special gifts were ideally combined in the illustrations he made for a series of stories about Babe, Little Joe, Big Joe, and Uncle Pete by R. Ross Annett that ran for over twenty years in The Saturday Evening Post.
Sewell was born in San Francisco and studied nights at the California School of Fine Arts, working days in a bank. After some years of this, he decided to try his luck as an illustrator in the East. To get there, he shipped out as a working hand on a lumber boat going by way of the Panama Canal.
In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at the Grand Central School of Art. Among his teachers were Guy Pene DuBois, Julian Levi...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Wave, 1948
Located in London, GB
JEAN MIROSLAW PESKE 1870-1949
Ukraine 1870-1949 France (Ukrainian/Russian/French)
Title: La Vague / The Wave, circa 1948
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas laid on board.
This work was painted circa 1948.
size:33 x 41 cm / 13 x 16.1 in
Additional Information: This is an original painting by Jean Peske...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cover illustration for "The Future Mr. Dolan"
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fuel Oil Delivery
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Story Illustration "Katie Cling & the Dutchess"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 20.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Story Illustration: "Katie Cling & the Dutchess", by Dorothy Staley, Goo...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's Illustration
By Saul Tepper
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left
This illustration appeared in Edmond War's story, Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's magazine, 1942.
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Won the Harvard Award in 1929; Newspaper Award in 1936 and was elected to the Society of Illustrations Hall of Fame in 1980.
Saul Tepper was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, and remained a New Yorker all his life.
As a youngster, Tepper was awarded a correspondence course from the Landon School of Art. He also studied at The Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and at the Grand Central School of Art, under Harvey Dunn.
Tepper first worked as a letterer in a fashion catalog...
Category
Romantic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Return of General Kosciuszko" - Philadelphia Blended Whisky Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Image of colonists with ships in background.
Frank J. Reilly (1906-1967) was noted as "the number 1 art teacher in America." Reilly is noted for developing a means of organizing the palette. His value studies and chroma organization are still taught as the primary methods of oil paint organization. Reilly studied with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League of New York. He taught at the Grand Central School of Art, The Art Students League of New York and other art schools as well as establishing his own art school. Reilly was the main influence on George Passantino. He is credited with the mosaic mural in The Bronx High School of Science's front lobby. Reilly's influence continues today through the teaching and art of Michael Aviano and Jack Faragasso as well as their students Jon deMartin...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glamorous Nude with Red Coat emerging from Curtain, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Fabry's captures the hight of elegance in his loose style. Conte crayon, watercolor on watercolor paper Signed lower right Private collection Other works by this artist:
ca. 1940 - ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor
The Standoff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1949
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post illustration, 1949
Twelve of von Schmidt's paintings hang in the Go...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Filling the Biggest Lumber Order on Record
By Robert Riggs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1946
Medium: Oil on Paper
Dimensions: 20.25" x 18.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Exhibitions: September 2007: Society of Illustrators
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Grandmom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Grandmom with grandson and dog
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At Home Wedding
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions; 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The First American Law School
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 12.00" x 16.00"
1948 pattern for Liberty.
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Drunk man at party, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry, Work is Framed i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Catch the Turkey, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Liberty Magazine, November 23, 1940
Little boy trying to catch a turkey.
Magazine Included
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Going my Way, Movie Poster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil, Pastel, and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 26.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Unsigned
original movie poster art design, for the 1944 film ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Oil, Board
"City Scene"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed and dated March 1943 lower right.
Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from th...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"My Darling Bride"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1994
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book Cover
Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Judge Abbey and the Four Elves" Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original story illustration for “Judge Abbey and the Four Elves” By Cecily Teague Crowe for the Ladies’ Home Journal, published October 1948
The full caption reads: "'You'd think,' ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sainted Sister
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1940
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Remembered Anger, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story featured in The Saturday Evening Post, 1945 “Remembered Anger” by Martha Albrand
Story illustration: Man in showgirl's dres...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Book Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Blue Book Magazine Cover, November 1947
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Woman Among Books with a Man in Fedora Behind Her
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Augustin Lesage
Located in PARIS, FR
Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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